Posted January 4, 20205 yr Join me as I go through a list that I recommend you all add whatever looks interesting that you haven't played to whatever wishlists or plan-to-get lists you have.  Gaming is such an extensively time-consuming hobby (and if not done right, expensive) that unlike with music it's unrealistic to expect anyone here to have played even half of these.  With this commentary I'll attempt to alleviate that by posting the genre of each game and what it does right, sometimes from hearsay as I myself haven't played them all, where possible, from experience. So this can be both useful as well as entertaining. There are 89 games to go through, we decided to allow write-ins in the end, and some of the nominated games got zero points. So those first. (and thank you to Harry for adding this up)
January 4, 20205 yr Author  81 Doom (2016) 5 PS4, Xbox 1, Switch, PC, Stadia Genre: FPS reboot of the all-time classic, recaptured the spirit of the original for a new era of fighting demonic forces from Hell, that rare beast of a reboot that apparently isn't a soulsucking cashgrab 82 Mario & Sonic At The 2012 Olympic Games 4 Wii/3DS Genre: Party I played 2008 so I'm sort of qualified to talk about this one! Um, do sports with dull and embarassing Mario characters and interesting Sonic characters. Sometimes they break reality.  83 Kingdom Hearts III - 3 PS4, Xbox 1 Genre: RPG that Disney video game that has an anime protagonist for some reason also despite it being called 'III', that is a horrific LIE, as there have been 9 games in the series since this one and II. released in 2019 and that somehow seems wrong because years of seeing people talk about Kingdom Hearts II as like the only one that exists have made me think the whole thing is ancient. 84 Friday The 13th 3 Xbox 1, PS4, Switch, PC Genre: Survival horror apparently we are letting this one in, Michael asymmetric multiplayer based on a film which can only end in a lot of blood and gore or something NIL POINTS Death Stranding PS4 (so far) Genre: postal delivery service THE game you couldn't not hear about at the end of 2019, probably just too new to make it on to anyone's list, I have heard... 8/10 things, and much about Norman Reedus' urinal movements.  Geometry Dash iOS, PC Genre: platformer a mobile game that sounds like it should be a simple puzzler but is apparently a simple platformer PilotWings Resort Nintendo 3DS Genre: flight simulator an entry into the Wii Sports Resort cinematic universe because apparently a game could be made that was just the aerial sports from that game State Of Decay Xbox 1, PC Genre: Survival Horror an allegedly terrifying open-world experience and given it was early in the decade, perhaps a not completely reductive zombie horror game Super Mario Party Nintendo Switch Genre: Party (funnily enough) apparently good for couch multiplayer, if you have friends, or people who otherwise tolerate your company
January 5, 20205 yr Those last two just missed out on votes from me, SoD has a lot of management/strategy elements mixed in with the regular aspects of zombie games too. Managing outposts and other ‘civilisations’ for lack of a better word I remember being quite tricky at times
January 5, 20205 yr lmao I nominated Death Stranding but kind of wish I had nominated Planet Zoo or Pokemon Sw/Sh now :lol:
January 6, 20205 yr Okay but Friday the 13th is actually slightly iconic. It's kept me entertained more than any other game the past few years.
January 6, 20205 yr  71 Return Of The Obra-Dinn - 11 MacOS, Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One Genre: Puzzle Indie puzzler with a name that sounds like a follow up star wars game or movie. 72 Slay The Spire - 11 Windows, macOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android Genre: Roguelike, deck-building Indie roguelike/deck-building game released this year, sounds more like a role-playing game based on the name.  73 Professor Layton And The Last Spectre - 10 Nintendo DS Genre: Puzzle adventure More mind-boggling puzzles in the professor Layton series.  74 Final Fantasy XV - 9 PlayStation 4, Xbox One ,Microsoft Windows, Stadia Genre: Fighting With an open-world environment and an action role-playing based gameplay, latest in the franchise. 75 Mortal Kombat 11 - 9 Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia Genre: Fighting The gory fighting game returns made for you to play solo, with friends or online. 76 The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - 9 Windows, Xbox 360, OS X. Linux Genre: Action role-playing Action role-playing with hack + slash elements returns for second game. 77 Assassin's Creed: Odyssey - 8 Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Stadia Genre: Action role-playing, Stealth The latest in the stealth role-playing series this time taking place during the roman empire. 78 Outlast - 8 Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, OS X, Nintendo Switch Genre: Survival horror Scary survival horror game which created a buzz online due to scary jumpscares and interesting plot. 79 Destiny 2 - 7 Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia Genre: First-person shooter The follow up to destiny 1 but had received better reviews and was favoured more by fans.  80 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - 6 Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Genre: Survival Horror The famous horror game franchise is back with a vengeance this time being a survival horror game.
January 6, 20205 yr Author Return Of The Obra-Dinn is very high up my wishlist thanks to Dirca's recommendations of it, it sounds like right up my street after I loved Danganronpa and I quite like Papers Please though I haven't completed that one (made by the same guy apparently). Mystery story-driven games are very much my thing lately. Also if you like any form of dungeon-crawling and/or card gaming then Slay The Spire is a must-have, so fun and easy to get into but v. hard to master.
January 6, 20205 yr Final Fantasy XV - 9 PlayStation 4, Xbox One ,Microsoft Windows, Stadia Genre: Fighting With an open-world environment and an action role-playing based gameplay, late And is absolute TRASH
January 7, 20205 yr Author  61 Monument Valley - 14 mobile game Genre: Puzzle an optical illusion game built upon a maze concept, looks quite pretty 62 Mortal Kombat X - 14 PC, Xbox One, PS4, iOS Genre: Fighting in an ideal world I'd have gotten Harry to talk about all of the fighting games but I couldn't split them up properly, this looks like a very ambitious series 63 Assassins Creed: Revelations - 13 PS3, Xbox 360, PC, PS4, Xbox One Genre: Stealth action The final installment in the Ezio trilogy of AC, it mainly features an aged Ezio in the streets of Istanbul. Not as great as AC2 or Brotherhood, but still a good point in the franchise before it went into a dark period for a bit. That tower defense minigame was a bit bullshit though. 64 Dead Or Alive 5 - 13 PS3, Xbox 360 Genre: Fighting a rep from a fighting game series that has an intricate fighting system and plenty of characters to choose from 65 Fifa 11 - 13 all platforms Genre: kicking a ball about this is the FIFA we chose, I actually did play this one a little back in the day, but you know what these are and if you're interested or not 66 Hitman 2 - 13 PC, Xbox One, PS4 Genre: Stealth I know nothing about this but I can imagine you're an assassin who goes through intricate missions to assassinate people. 67 Tropico 4 - 13 PC, Xbox 360 Genre: City Management So I've played 5 and I expect this is similar, city management simulator as a banana republic island dictator, featuring amusing lines as the characters of your city interact with 'el Presidente'. 68 Driver: San Francisco -13 PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii Genre: Action Racing So this is a racing game but with a story as well, and also licensed cars for realism  69 Final Fantasy XIII - 12 PS3, Xbox 360, PC Genre: J-RPG a fairly modern installment of Final Fantasy that is less modern and Michael-hateable than XV but more advanced than X  70 Forza Horizon - 11 Xbox 360 Genre: Racing racing game where you can race all kinds of cars and acts as the basic racing game that you play when visiting a friend's house
January 7, 20205 yr FF15 is NOT modern. It looks and feels like a ps3 game. It is the worst ff in history.
January 7, 20205 yr Return Of The Obra-Dinn is very high up my wishlist thanks to Dirca's recommendations of it, it sounds like right up my street after I loved Danganronpa and I quite like Papers Please though I haven't completed that one (made by the same guy apparently). Mystery story-driven games are very much my thing lately. More than anything else, I wish I could erase my memory of it and play it again, or alternatively I wish I could tell my past self to puzzle it out more (rather than brute force some of the more obtuse sections). More than anything I'm just marveled that exists, because making a cohesive story of a voyage that you can only peer into during death scenes (or stills really), and not have those feel inorganic to the story or repetitive, is perhaps just as impressive as making a functional game around it. I still need to get around to playing Papers Please which is obviously where the hype stemmed from.
January 12, 20205 yr  46 God Of War III- 19 PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 Genre: Action-adventure, hack and slash Assume it was this one y'all voted for? The actual god of war came out in 2005. 47 Infamous: Second Son - 19 PlayStation 4 Genre: Action-adventure PS4 exclusive game. Follows a protagonist who has superpowers.  48 Mortal Kombat - 19 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows Genre: Fighting Ninth main instalment in the Mortal Kombat series and serves as a reboot of the franchise. 49 Final Fantasy VIII - 18 Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One Genre: Role-playing New-gen remaster of 1999 role-playing game, 50 Factorio - 18 Windows, macOS, Linux Genre: Construction and management simulation, real-time strategy Another simulation game this time takes place on an alien planet. 51 Baba Is You - 17 Windows. Linux. macOS. Nintendo Switch Genre: Puzzle Finnish puzzle game. Iz probs know more than me. 52 Super Mario 3D Land - 17 3DS Genre: Platform 3D Mario fun. First in the 3D Mario game. 53 Enter The Gungeon - 16 Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Genre: Bullet hell, roguelike Follows four adventurers as they descend into the Gungeon (a gun-themed dungeon) to find a gun to kill their past 54 Inside - 16 Xbox One, Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS Genre: Puzzle-platformer, adventure Dark platformer game. Well received.  55 Parkitect - 16 Windows, macOS, Linux Genre: Simulation Want to run your own theme park? With this game you can. 56 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - 15 PlayStation 4. Xbox One. Windows Genre: Action-adventure, stealth Stealth game set in Victorian London with open-world design. 57 Hollow Knight - 15 Windows, macOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One Genre: Metroidvania I don't know much about this game other than its an indie game funded via Kickstarter. 58 Shantae: Half-Genie Hero - 15 Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One & Nintendo Switch Genre: Platform, Metroidvania A platformer that was funded via Kickstarter.  59 Assassin's Creed: Origins - 14 Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One Genre: Action-adventure, stealth 10th major instalment this time taking place in ancient Egypt.  60 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 14 Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 Genre: First-person shooter The third instalment in the modern warfare series. Known for great multilayer.
January 22, 20205 yr The most recent game in the series is also simply called God Of War, so that was correct.
January 22, 20205 yr Author I managed to get to play Baba Is You for the first time on my holiday (my stepbrother has it on his Switch)! It's a really interesting game, all programming centred and based around breaking the game to win. I shall have to look into buying it. said holiday is why there hasn't been an update on this but I shall return to it very soon.
January 24, 20205 yr Author  41 Professor Layton And The Lost Future - 21 Nintendo DS I don't know much about Layton but it's a long-running puzzle game series (which does interest me but I never had a DS) and this installment got two votes so is at least fairly highly regarded.  42 Undertale - 21 PC, PS4, PS Vita, Switch Undertale is one of the most influential games of the decade. I've played a little way into it and find the combat a little not to my taste, but it's a very creative environment that has created a huge fandom and stories about its world. The ability to spare or kill monsters and have it affect the game later down is something that's highly valued. 43 Furi - 20 PC, PS4, Xbox 1, Switch I largely know this indie game because our very own Dircadirca is a speedrunning champion at it. It's an action game based around fighting bosses, dodging their attacks and beating them up. 44 Just Cause 2 - 20 PC, PS3, Xbox 360 The entry in the Just Cause series that I think is generally considered the best, this open world shooter from the start of the decade is a brilliant excuse to blow stuff up, race around and evade the soldiers of a dictatorial regime on a small Pacific island. While being able to pull parachutes out of the ether and glide whereever you feel like. Probably the shooter I've played most this decade because it's so relaxing. 45 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - 20 PC, PS4, Xbox 1, Switch Genre: RPG Un-nominated until Harve did a write-in, and I mean, it was quite an oversight, so it might have been higher in any other ranking but this is one of the most acclaimed and beloved games of the decade, a smash hit after the previous 2 Witcher games were smaller if still successful hits, I look forward to getting into it years from now. Or shortly after I get around to watching the now also very popular TV series.Â
January 29, 20205 yr  36. Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward - 24 Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows A 2012 adventure which animation on the cover looks straight out of an anime. Probably looks different in-game. 37. Call of Duty: Black Ops - 23 Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, OS X Next up is another and last COD of our countdown. Mainly known for its addictive zombie's mode. It also received praise for its story mode even if not for its actual multiplayer mode (I personally enjoyed it).  38. Stellaris - 23 Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game much like the civilisation series I imagine. Stellaris's gameplay revolves around "space exploration, managing an empire, diplomacy, and space warfare with other spacefaring civilizations". 39. Celeste - 22 Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.  Next up is another platformer, this, however, was released in 2018 by Canadian developers. In Celeste, you control a girl named Madeline as she makes her way up a mountain.  40. Limbo - 22 Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4. PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android  Stating off the top 40 is a dark-themed indie puzzle-platform game, that incorporates a 2D side-scroller to have a "physics system" between the in-game objects and the playable character. Â
January 29, 20205 yr Author Zero Escape does look anime, in the same way that Final Fantasy or Persona look anime - it's basically a story-driven puzzle game where you are progressively trapped in rooms and have to figure out logic to get out. Great story, at least for 999, I'm in the middle of Virtue's Last Reward right now.  Even I have praise for Black Ops' story, that's the one COD I don't have on Steam that I wouldn't mind buying again just for that. Stellaris is great for telling a story about your spacefaring empire, and playing out Star Trek fantasies, need to play it again. Celeste I've started playing recently and it's really HARD because there are spikes everywhere and it's very easy to hit the controls wrong and fail but because of a system where if you die you get reset extraordinarily quickly, it's very easy to keep going and when you finally make it past a hard section it feels so good
January 30, 20205 yr Author  31 The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening - 26 Nintendo Switch A 2019 remake of the classic 1993 game, this is a followup to the successful Breath Of The Wild, but it isn't a direct sequel, as it is a remake. It has a retro-modern style in its designs that suit its longer history, it also makes some of the 2D environments of the original 3D. Always nice seeing elements of gaming history preserved for use on new consoles x 32 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim -26 PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One, your handheld console, your phone, your watch, your fridge Skyrim I'd probably count among, if not THE most known video game of the 2010s, I'd imagine its opening scene and the memes that came from it are as well known as a popular movie, and nearly everyone's at least played a little bit of its quests, though few have played it all of the way, and you might have just been inclined to put buckets on shopkeepers' heads instead. But then those type of people don't get to the Cloud District very often. It is fun specialising throughout it, my eternal run that I play once every few months and then forget about it is this conjuration focused mage who creates swords in homage to the UBW fighting style of eternal blades from nothingness. 33 Marvel's Spiderman - 25 PS4 Another PS4 exclusive, this time a recent one that entered the minefield of licensed video games, while they can be incredibly good, they carry a risk of being bad or eventually becoming inaccessible as studios lose the rights to them. This one is about Spiderman and gives you his ability to swing around his city while protecting it. From all accounts sounds fun in the same way that the Batman: Arkham games are fun, lots of city traversal as a superhero. 34 The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth - 24 PC, PS4, PS Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, 3DS  One of the most influential games of the decade I think has got to be The Binding Of Isaac, it set the stage for indie roguelikes that make up a very large portion of the industry outside of triple-A games. Rebirth is the remake released a few years after the original flash game that is an improvement in every way, a better engine, more items and even more combinations in the intentionally disgusting world of infant neglect and irreverent religious and spiritual references that make up most of the game's items.  It's a very hard game but one I've found a lot of fun in trying to master, and the fact that doing better unlocks better items gives it a sense of progression even when you fail that few roguelikes can match. 35 Horizon: Zero Dawn - 24 PS4 A new intellectual property RPG for once! I haven't played this and due to exclusivity am unlikely to but the survival aspect of keeping alive in a hostile world overrun by machines at least SOUNDS on paper rather good.Â
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